Letter from the editor: Following the money is a key part of Mississippi Today’s mission

Letter from the editor: Following the money is a key part of Mississippi Today’s mission

Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. Mississippians deserve to know how elected officials are spending taxpayer dollars and who’s spending money to lobby the decision-makers, even when the officials themselves don’t always make that information easy to find. Journalists at Mississippi Today have been digging into budgets, expense reports, lobbying disclosures, state plane records and other documents …